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The updated count of measles cases in Texas now stands at 90, increased from 58 three days ago. Of these cases, 77 (86%) are children, 85 (94%) overall are unvaccinated, and 0 (0.0%) have been mentioned by RFK Jr. the Secretary of HHS. He’s far too busy casting aspersions on vaccines.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, just 11 years old, “took her own life in Texas after she was tormented by classmates who threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities and have her family deported from the US, her grieving parents have said.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 3 days ago • 1413 comments

Creation Lake not even being on the NBCC longlist is bananas

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submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

It’s been 10 years, can we give this one a break already? Like. It’s 2025. JD Vance is Vice President. I don’t want to ask anybody 36 questions for love or money.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Call me crazy but it sure seems like vaccines would be "critical to preserving health," especially in a state with declining vaccination rates and a large outbreak of vaccine-preventable measles. #txlege

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Excellent opening for the president to commute every federal death sentence before Trump starts murdering again. resist.bot/petitions/PO...

submitted 73 days ago • 4 comments

We’ve known from the work of @pamherd.bsky.social & @donmoyn.bsky.social, Ben Sommers, and others that work requirements don’t actually increase employment, but instead have the core effect of imposing significant administrative burdens on enrollees struggling to navigate the system. And by design.

submitted 80 days ago • 7 comments

pete hegseth doesn't want women to serve in combat roles yet he has his mother out here fighting his battles....

submitted 80 days ago • 1218 comments

How does a transgender news outlet cover a major national story? We center trans voices, and we tell the truth without showing excessive deference to the justices who are holding our lives in the balance. Read Assigned Media's story on US vs Skrmetti.

submitted 80 days ago • 15 comments

In a second Trump term, Texas could get another chance to whittle down Medicaid — with fewer constraints. “We expect the Republicans to move very quickly to cut Medicaid dramatically and indeed end its guarantee of coverage,” said one advocate. By @lomikriel.bsky.social & @jessicapriest.bsky.social

submitted 81 days ago • 74 comments

I truly can't bring myself to care about the Hunter Biden business. The norms are gone, folks. The country elected Donald Trump again. Pundits are pulling off the remarkable feat of recognizing reality at a slower pace than Joe Biden.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

When Texas said last week that its Maternal Mortality Review Committee wouldn’t examine any pregnancy-related deaths from 2022 and 2023, the state essentially admitted that women’s bodies are piling up faster than it cares to investigate them. Me in MSNBC:

submitted 81 days ago • 3 comments

These French guidelines are sober, reasonable, comprehensive, and in line with the reality of pediatric treatment, where off-label prescribing and clinical judgement often plays a role in guidelines formation because of the ethical difficulties in enrolling minors in large randomized trials.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

On the 1904 election (the book is The Party of Reform: Democrats in the Progressive Era by David Sarasohn)

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

“Biden can—& must—take the step advocates & some lawmakers have been asking him to take for nearly four yrs: Clear the federal death row. Biden must use his pardon power to commute the death sentences of those on fed. death row to sentences of life in prison w/out the possibility of parole. Do it.”

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

“We’re hearing that the Angel of History balloon is out of control - a wind is blowing from paradise and it’s broken free of its moorings”

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments